[MCN] Apologies for this exception to my once-a-week posting here

[Lance Olsen]

Nearly 100 Large Wildfires Burning Across the West; Tens of Thousands Evacuated in California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho
<<https://weather.com/news/news/2020-09-09-western-wildfires-california-oregon-washington <https://weather.com/news/news/2020-09-09-western-wildfires-california-oregon-washington>>>

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“The fact is that we, humans, have changed the composition of the atmosphere with respect to heat-trapping gases enough to start the progression of global climate, not into a new steady state, but into an open-ended warming that is pulling the environment out from under this civilization.”
George Woodwell
<<https://thinkprogress.org/exclusive-dr-george-woodwell-sets-the-record-straight-455bfcf14412/ <https://thinkprogress.org/exclusive-dr-george-woodwell-sets-the-record-straight-455bfcf14412/>>>
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“A new area of study is the field that some of us are beginning to call social traps. The term refers to situations in society that contain traps formally like a fish trap, where men or whole societies get themselves started in some direction or some set of relationships that later prove to be unpleasant or lethal and that they see no easy way to back out of or to avoid."
John Platt. Social Traps. American Psychologist, August 1973

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Caught in a Trap of Our Own Making: Climate Change, Blame, and Denial
Lance Olsen
<<https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/06/25/caught-in-a-trap-of-our-own-making-climate-change-blame-and-denial/>>

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